the Honorable Robert Wagner, Sr., at that time a justice of the New York Supreme Court, was on the reception committee.

The reception was held in a private dining room of the Webster Hotel on Lincoln Park West.

Despite his apprehensions about his personal safety, Palfrey's reception in New Orleans was more than cordial.

The fundamental difficulty of which the Selden case was `` a striking ( though not singular ) example '', concluded Hough, `` will remain as long as testimony is taken without any authoritative judicial officer present, and responsible for the maintenance of discipline, and the reception or exclusion of testimony ''.

A reception was held at the church.

His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!

Hume was disappointed with the reception of the Treatise, which " fell stillborn from the press ," as he put it, and so tried again to disseminate his more developed ideas to the public by writing a shorter and more polemical work.

Politicians often resent this need for separation – sometimes sending their bodyguards away from them for personal or publicity reasons ; U. S. President William McKinley did this at the public reception where he was assassinated.

The album continued Dylan's artistic comeback following 1997's Time Out of Mind, and was given an even more enthusiastic reception.

It also housed Station X, a secret radio intercept station, although interception was soon moved to a location with better reception.

The neoclassical architect, Sir Robert Smirke, was asked to draw up plans for an eastern extension to the Museum "... for the reception of the Royal Library, and a Picture Gallery over it ..." and put forward plans for today's quadrangular building, much of which can be seen today.

It was released the following January to a positive reception.

For example, following the American Revolution in 1776, one of the first legislative acts undertaken by each of the newly independent states was to adopt a " reception statute " that gave legal effect to the existing body of English common law to the extent that American legislation or the Constitution had not explicitly rejected English law.

" Thus, even when reception was effected by a constitution, the common law was still subject to alteration by a legislature's statute.

In the other five provinces and the three territories, reception was governed by reception statutes.

In the four Atlantic provinces ( Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador ), the reception of English law was automatic, under the principle set out by Blackstone relating to settled colonies.

No reception statute was necessary.

These territories were considered to have been settled by British colonists, and therefore the reception of English law was automatic.

However, given the long history of control by the Hudson's Bay Company, there was some uncertainty as to the date of reception.

When Hong Kong was handed over to China in 1997, Hong Kong retained the common law through a reception statute in Chapter I, Article 8 of the Basic Law of Hong Kong:

Justification ( sixth session ) was declared to be offered upon the basis of human cooperation with divine grace as opposed to the Protestant doctrine of passive reception of grace.

It originally stood for Community Access Television or Community Antenna Television, from cable television's origins in 1948: in areas where over-the-air reception was limited by distance from transmitters or mountainous terrain, large " community antennas " were constructed, and cable was run from them to individual homes.

From 1900 on, thanks to the positive reception given to his ideas, Steiner focused increasingly on his work with the Theosophical Society becoming the secretary of its section in Germany in 1902.

In 1533, three rectors of Aegina were punished for their acts of injustice and we have a graphic account of the reception given by the Aeginetans to the captain of Nauplia, who came to hold an enquiry into the administration of these delinquents.

This does not always prove to be detrimental to a given work's reception, however, as the popularity of the aforementioned genre demonstrates.

Shimazu Takahisa ( 1514 – 1571 ), daimyo of Satsuma, gave a friendly reception to Francis on 29 September 1549, but in the following year he forbade the conversion of his subjects to Christianity under penalty of death ; Christians in Kagoshima could not be given any catechism in the following years.

His official reception under the Cupola took place on 22 June 1989, the response to his speech of reception being given by Bertrand Poirot-Delpech.

The film premiered in New York on 20 October 1976, but was given a lukewarm reception by critics and fans.

However, The Modern Lovers was given an enthusiastic critical reception, with critic Ira Robbins hailing it as " one of the truly great art rock albums of all time ," and it influenced numerous aspiring punk rock musicians on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Sex Pistols ( who covered " Roadrunner " on The Great Rock ' n ' Roll Swindle ).

During the reception, a number of short speeches and / or toasts may be given in honor of the couple.

Diệm was given a reception at the State Department with the Acting Secretary of State James E. Webb.

Significantly, many of his earliest novels have Ireland as their setting — natural enough given his background, but unlikely to enjoy warm critical reception, given the contemporary English attitudes towards Ireland.

Less than two generations after Ovid's publication, Acts 14: 11-12 relates the ecstatic reception given to Paul of Tarsus and Barnabas: " The crowds shouted ' The gods have come down to us in human form!

The reception given to Chamberlain in the Orange River Colony was surprisingly friendly, although he was engaged in a two hour argument with General Hertzog, who accused the British government of violating three terms of the Treaty of Vereeniging.

Churchill was also given a hostile reception when he visited Walthamstow Stadium during the general election campaign of 1945.

In 1846 Smetana attended concerts given in Prague by Berlioz, and in all likelihood met the French master at a reception arranged by Proksch.

A less favourable reception was given to his last opera, New Year.

At a reception given in the monarch's honor, the Tsar asked Rubinstein if he was pleased with this gift.

Despite the favorable reception, the film was not given a proper theatrical release due to the bankruptcy of its distributor.

It was this, along with the Pentium Pro's high price, that caused the rather lackluster reception among PC enthusiasts, given the dominance at the time of the 16-bit MS-DOS, 16 / 32-bit Windows 3. 1x, and 32 / 16-bit Windows 95 ( parts of Windows 95, such as USER. exe, were still mostly 16-bit ).

* After receiving a frosty reception from a local villager, Paul McGann's character in the film Withnail and I says, " That's not the attitude I'd been given to expect from the H. E.

The somewhat subdued party proceeded to Manchester, where, the Duke being deeply unpopular with the weavers and mill workers, they were given a lively reception ( bricks thrown, etc.